Manager, Big4, Finance Performance Improvement

Our Big4 client is seeking talented professionals interested in being part of a dynamic team, serving Financial Services clients in the Bay Area while reaching your full potential. As a key player on their Finance Transformation CFO Advisory group, you will play an important role within a dynamic, growing organization offering an exciting career path full of opportunity.

This practice helps clients better align their organizations' operating infrastructures with their strategies and efforts to make their business units more effective and efficient and, where required, provide services in connection with the remediation and mitigation of process risk. With a client base that includes financial institutions and other capital markets participants, there's tremendous potential for growth - and they are prepared to tap into that potential.

A superb compensation package with comprehensive benefits is coupled with excellent professional development and career path support and resources. This is a chance to work alongside a great team of professionals while doing really interesting and challenging projects – growing and having fun along the way. Give yourself a reason to smile on Monday mornings! Email us your resume and we will share all the details with you before forwarding your resume to our client and only then if you say go. This is YOUR career.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of individuals on a daily basis in providing client service directly to the Chief Financial Officer and Finance executives within world class financial institutions.


• Develop and maintain productive relationships with client management throughout the year while establishing expectations of value to be delivered.


• Advise clients on a variety of business process services that help identify, assess, measure and manage financial performance in organizations. These may include: finance function strategy, financial close, and chart of accounts design, reconciliations, reporting strategies, management reporting, management accounting, regulatory reporting initiatives and financial systems strategy.


• Research emerging industry trends, regulatory guidance, and best practices.


• Develop people by encouraging individuals to think for themselves and take responsibility for their contributions to the team.


• Recommend modifications to client infrastructures to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes and risk management programs.


• Generate new business opportunities. Understand the full service lines and actively assess/present ways to apply knowledge and services. Develop long-term relationships and networks both internally and externally.

To qualify you must have:

• a bachelor's degree and approximately 5 years of related work experience; or a graduate degree and approximately 4 years of related work experience


• a degree in finance, accounting, or a related business discipline; MBA preferred


• a minimum of 3+ years of experience in a consulting environment with a focus on finance improvement for financial services clients, encompassing either banking, capital markets, asset management companies and/or insurance


• experience with the design, development and implementation of internal controls for financial services business processes a plus


• basic understanding of accounting, regulatory and compliance concepts prevalent in financial institutions


• excellent written and verbal communication skills for report writing and client presentations
  strong analytical skills; specifically, the ability to assess and decompose financial services industry processes utilizing a risk and control focus


• effective leadership, project management and teamwork skills


• willingness to travel approximately 50%, on average

Please send your resume in confidence to woodrecruiting@simpun.com for immediate consideration.